Let’s talk about the bottle in your gym bag. It’s a scam. A beautiful, tasty scam.
About 25% of bottled water is just tap water from another city. Dasani is just purified tap water.
You’re paying thousands of times more for the same stuff that comes out of your sink. The only difference? The plastic bottle and a fancy label.
The Quirky Exceptions
Some water is genuinely special. Vintage water is a real thing.
Bottles of water from the 1980s sell for hundreds of dollars. It tastes like stale plastic and regret.
And there’s water from deep-sea caves in Norway. It’s been filtered through mountains for 5,000 years. It’s basically the Rolling Stones of water.
